Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions

Facial recognition software has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few decades, with error rates decreasing significantly within the past ten years. Though this is true, conditions such as poor lighting, obstructions, and profile-only angles have continued to persist in preventing wholly accurate readings. Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions examines how the field of facial recognition takes these adverse conditions into account when designing more effective applications by discussing facial recognition under real world PIE variations, current applications, and the future of the field of facial recognition research. The work is intended for academics, engineers, and researchers specializing in the field of facial recognition.

Maria De Marsico was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1963. She received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 1988. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome. Her main research interests include pattern recognition, multibiometric systems, image processing, human-computer interaction. In the field of biometrics, she collaborates with BIPLab at University of Salerno. She has been member of the Program Committees of many international conferences, and is member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Biometris Compendium. Maria De Marsico is a member of IEEE, ACM, and IAPR.

Michele Nappi was born in Naples, Italy, in 1965. He received the laurea degree (cum laude) in computer science from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 1991, the M.Sc. degree in information and communication technology from I.I.A.S.S. E.R. Caianiello, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Salerno. His research interests include multibiometric systems, pattern recognition, image processing, compression and indexing, multimedia databases, and human-computer interaction. Dr. Nappi is a member of IEEE and IAPR.

Massimo Tistarelli was born on November 11, 1962 in Genoa, Italy. He received the PhD in Computer Science and Robotics in 1991 from the University of Genoa. He is Full Professor in Computer Science (with tenure) and director of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Sassari, Italy.